On 11/28/12 7:01 PM, Rodger Donaldson wrote: > From my perspective some the pros would be: > > * Managing zVM programmatically is a first-class experience. Many > virtual environments are managed through a GUI, which is easy, but > bulk-changes require using an API which doesn't always seem to have been > designed with a great deal of care and attention.
VMWare ESX specifically is nasty in this regard, in particular when one manages clusters of VMWare via a Virtual Center controller. One used to be able to do quite a lot logged directly into an ESX server, but they're rolling that back now, and it was dodgy w.r.t. the Virtual Center. I did find, and use, a perl based remote client API that can talk to a Virtual Center, but it was obtuse and wasn't fully functional That said, several other virtualization solutions, in particular the linux based ones (kvm, rhev) are pretty sweet to script. Sadly, I never got to work on a vmsmapi fast provisioning solution for Z. I was really looking forward to trying: create customized kickstart on nfs accessable linux box vmsmapi call to create user, allocate DASD vmur / vmcp commands to punch kernel, initrd, generated parm file vmcp to login & ipl new user ... Mind this was always low priority because we have a working clone from a template solution. I primarily just wanted to play. :-) -- Pat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
